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Name: Ila Axelrod
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Introductions and discussion of the aims of the series
Date: 14 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford),
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Gendering History, State-Making and the Politics of Land in Mozambique, 1977-1986
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Introductions and discussion of the aims of the series
Date: 14 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford),
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Memory and Voting Behaviour
Date: 21 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Bright Chimedza
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 October 2025
State Absence and Everyday Transformation in Unity’s Oil Fields (South Sudan)
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Matai Muon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 November 2025
[TITLE/SPEAKER CHANGE] Unidos venceremos: the Conference of Nationalist Organisations of the Portuguese Colonies (CONCP) and the United Nations (1960-1975)
Date: 4 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Maria Pereira da Costa (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Gendering History, State-Making and the Politics of Land in Mozambique, 1977-1986
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Making Revolutionary Youth: Socialist Discourses, Pedagogies and Experiences in Samora Machel’s Mozambique (1975-1986)
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Johanna Wetzel (Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Navigating Manhood in Zambia’s Livingstone and the Copperbelt during the ‘Golden Era of Modern Manhood’ (mid-1940s–late-1970s)
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Kazmel Hamweemba (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Roundtable: New approaches to oral histories in Southern Africa
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Curating Biocultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Date: 20 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Thandi Wilson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 February 2026
Transnational Revolutionary Networks and the Global Cold War: The African National Congress, the Irish Republican Army, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, 1969-2005
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Natalia Hildebrand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Title TBC
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Nyasha Mukonoweshuro (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 February 2026
On the Sultan’s Secret Service: Oman, Rhodesia, and the CargOman Affair
Date: 17 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Naif Alrogi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 February 2026
Tim Freeman’s malaria trials and the monetisation of impregnated mosquito nets in Gokwe, northwest Zimbabwe, 1993-1996
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Asa Mudzimu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Strikes, refusal, troublemaking: Workers’ resistance to and disruption of German rule in colonial Namibia
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Malin Bornemann (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
